Colin Farrell: 'Jessica Brown Findlay has disdain for fame'

Colin Farrell has spoken about working with Jessica Brown Findlay, saying she has a "healthy disdain" for celebrity.

The actor stars alongside the Downton Abbey actress in upcoming film New York Winter's Tale. Farrell plays an orphaned thief with a heart of gold while Brown Findlay stars as an ailing young woman who turns out to be his soulmate.

Farrell told The Huffington Post: "Working with Jessica was so easy because she's an incredibly sweet person. Truly, genuinely, and not enamoured by fame and celebrity.

"If anything, she has a healthy disdain for the above. Really lovely to be around. A wonderful dance partner, literally and figuratively. I was honored to have her as my partner in the film."

He added: "And she's funny as hell. Yeah, she's goofy. She'll tell you herself she's not as graceful as she looks and she is such a picture of grace and beauty. She's extraordinarily beautiful, but she just knocks stuff over."